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hock

[hok] / hɒk /
VERB
pawn
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Markets are likely to expect higher U.K. public spending under Burnham due to his past comments that the U.K. shouldn’t be “in hock to the bond markets,” Deutsche Bank strategists said in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Razor-sharp teeth and surgical precision allow the bats to make an incision in an animal, such as in the hock of a cow, without the animal feeling it.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2024

Including any sign of hock burn ulcers at all, it says their shoppers found 74% of the chickens they checked had the condition.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2024

"Today, the overwhelming majority of our birds are free of any hock marking, and it's our ambition to make hock burn a thing of the past," a spokeswoman said.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2024

“Did you put a ham hock in this stew?”

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz




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